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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

The Pioneer Woman is My Spirit Animal and Other Things I Actually Made from Pinterest

I feel like I always say it, but it really has been a long while since I did one of these posts... over 9 months, actually. I did post about Pinterest a couple months ago, but not too many successes there. As you can probably guess from the title, I've been loving me some Mrs. Drummond recently. Her show is my favorite on weekend mornings, and you have to follow her on Pinterest and IG! You can follow me on Pinterest, too :) and see all the recipes I've actually made here.

Aunt Trish's Salad Dressing: This recipe is so easy and delicious. I've been all about salads since the new year and this is a nice way to switch it up from my normal olive oil/balsamic vinegar mixture.

Apple Peanut Butter Delights: On Friday night, after I made BBQ Chicken French Bread Pizza (more below), I decided to make these for dessert. Yeah... don't broil them for 3 minutes. They burned. There was also too much peanut butter (gasp!) and it was all just a little too thick.

And my non-Pioneer Woman finds...

Salted Caramel Bark: Over Christmas vacation, we did a Make, Bake, and Buy Secret Santa with my college friends. I used Pinterest to search for what to bake for my recipient. Luckily, she has over 3,000 food pins, so I had a lot from which to choose. Oh, and I also had to find a recipe that wouldn't crush on a plane since we were getting in at 12:30 am Saturday morning and the party was 2 hours away at 2:00 Saturday afternoon. I found this bark that looked fairly portable and delicious. I've now learned I'm not great at making caramel and it ended up tasting more like praline than caramel, and I added pecans instead of pretzels, just because, and it was really good!

Easy Beef and Broccoli: Mike used flank steak, and the beef was a little tough, but we LOVED the sauce! We actually used all the leftover sauce (there was a lot) to marinate chicken and it was delicious, too.

omggg so many good recipes! i need to try the apple peanut butter delights and salted caramel bark! im glad you made that BBQ pizza -- it motivated me to follow through with my plans and make it on sunday! xo jillian - stop by! I'm hosting a giveaway on cornflake dreams

Holy delish!! I'm pinning most of these recipes!! DYING to try the salted caramel bark and I am drooling over the beef and broccoli! I'm so curious about that sauce now. Can't wait to add it to my dinner menu!

Actually, I think his recipe holder is genius! I wish I would have thought of that when I had that set-up!

Pioneer Woman is a love of mine too... and we love that she is from Oklahoma {and a family of OSU fans!}. I use both of her books repeatedly - I love that you are making one of your favorite recipes as healthy as it tastes good. Keep me updated on how it works out!